Institut für Molekulare Evolution
Willkommen am Institut für Molekulare Evolution an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Unsere Forschungsinteressen sind Endosymbiose, frühe Evolution, Ursprung des Lebens, Zellevolution, Genomevolution und kompartimentierter Energiestoffwechsel mit Schwerpunkt auf Chloroplasten, Mitochondrien und Hydrogenosomen.
Aktuelles
26.03.2021 Publication | Communications Biology
The metabolic network of the last bacterial common ancestor
Communications Biology 4:413 (2021)
doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01918-4
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24.03.2021 | In memoriam Tom Cavalier-Smith
Tom was a savant. The human brain typically filters information on comparative morphology, Tom's did not. He rearranged his trees of cells, in his head, at will, for two reasons. First because he was able to do so, something no one else could. Second because there was always the problem that the characters might all be equally important. Weighting one character over the other changed the tree, often at its base, and he was able to then draw the resulting tree and its alternatives in a few minutes, from full throttle short and long term memory at once, sometimes reinterpreting characters in full stride. Those are intellectual feats unimaginable for the rest of us. He diligently put his knowledge in the written record, a great service to us all, for which science will be eternally grateful. Today we talk about Darwin or Haeckel. No one ever heard Tom say I can't remember. The rest of us put together, on the other hand, cannot forget. He was the closest thing to a super-hero that biology has to offer. In 200 years, the only contemporary blologist that science will discuss is Tom Cavalier-Smith. It was an honor to have interacted with him on too few occasions and to have been a biologist during his time.
19.03.2021 Publication | Genome Biology and Evolution
23.02.2021 Publication | Microorganisms
21.12.2020 Publication | Biosystems
09.12.2020 Press | Nature
07.12.2020 Publication | de Gruyter
30.11.2020 We moved!
You can now find us in
Building 26.24
Floor 03
18.11.2020 Publication | Genome Biology and Evolution
02.11.2020 Publication | PLoS Genetics
17.09.2020 Graduation | Maria Handrich
Maria Handrich successfully finished her doctorate with the thesis entitled
"Vergleichende Analyse von Lichtschutzmechanismen in 6 verschiedenen Repräsentanten der Archaeplastida".
13.07.2020 Publication | Nature Ecology and Evolution
Phylogenetic analyses with systematic taxon sampling show that mitochondria branch within Alphaproteobacteria
Nat Ecol Evol (2020)
doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1239-x
Behind the paper: A call for super caution in phylogenetic studies on the origin of mitochondria
14.07.2020 Assistant Professor | Shijulal Nelson-Sathi
04.06.2020 Publication | Frontiers in Microbiology
28.05.2020 Graduation | Madeline Weiß
Madeline Weiß successfully finished her doctorate with the thesis entitled
"Phylogenetische Analyse prokaryotischer Genome zur Rekonstruktion des letzten gemeinsamen Vorfahrens der Prokaryoten".
06.03.2020 Publication | Genome Biology and Evolution
02.03.2020 Press | Science
02.03.2020 Publication | Nature Ecology and Evolution
17.02.2020 Publication | FEMS Microbiology Reviews
28.01.2020 Graduation | Martina Preiner
Martina Preiner successfully finished her doctorate with the thesis entitled
"The abiotic pattern of biotic CO2 fixation in early metabolism".